YOUTH JOURNALIST SUBMISSION
FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADA
MEDIA AWARDS 2016
Amnesty International Canada invites student journalists to make submissions for its annual Youth Media Award.
The Youth Media Award honours students who have created content covering international or national human rights issues with a particular emphasis on how they impact young people. The coverage of specific human rights issues should include a variety of perspectives with analysis and not opinion. The media output should also go beyond comment on the human rights issues and address possible solutions. Entries will be judged on the significance/importance of the human rights issue addressed, the reportorial enterprise shown by the writer/producer of the piece, and the clarity and/or production standards in the presentation of the content.
This award recognizes the coverage of human rights issues that are printed, broadcast or posted online from a Canadian post-secondary institute and are within the mission of Amnesty International.
AmnestyInternational (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
In pursuit of this vision, AI’s mission is to conduct research and take action to prevent and end grave abuses of all human rights – civil, political, social, cultural and economic. From freedom of expression and association to physical and mental integrity, from protection from discrimination to the right to housing- these rights are indivisible.
The winner will be announced in September 2016. The prize is 500 dollars. The winner will also later receive an Amnesty International Canada Youth Media Award at the annual Amnesty International Canada Media Awards event.
Categories
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1. University/College Print
2. University/College Audio/Video
3.Online - must be a journalistic product for a college/university website where students have originated the content (maximum of three entries).
*Although there are three categories students may apply for, there will be only one Youth Award winner.
Amnesty International Canada reserves the right to withhold the prize if the jury is not satisfied with the quality of the submissions.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADA YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS2016 ENTRY FORM
CATEGORY: (please circle)
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PRINT VIDEO / AUDIO ONLINE
TITLE OF ENTRY:
NAME OF STUDENT JOURNALIST/REPORTER:
NAME OF EDITOR:
TRANSMISSION/PUBLICATION DATE:
PRINT MEDIA:
TITLE OF PUBLICATION & ADDRESS
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY BROADCAST MEDIA - DOCUMENTARY FILM, TELEVISION OR RADIO:
N/A
NAME OF STUDENT PRODUCER:
N/A
NAME OF STUDENT DIRECTOR:
Humber College
NAME OF UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE:
N/A
NAMES OF OTHER CONTRIBUTORS:
N/A
NAME OF PRODUCTION COMPANY:
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ONLINE:
URL OF INTERNET SITE:
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ENTRIES FOR THE 2016 AWARDS MUST HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED, BROADCAST OR POSTED IN A RECOGNIZED STUDENT MEDUA OUTLET BETWEEN 1 OCTOBER 2016 AND 31 MAY 2016.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 31 MAY 2016.
THE WINNERS OF THE 2016 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADA - MEDIA AWARDS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER 2016.
Contact Elizabeth Berton-Hunter at (416) 363-9933 ext 332 or
Entrant Information
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADA YOUTH MEDIA AWARDS2016
Eligibility
The competition is open to any student at a Canadian university or college who has had an article published or a piece broadcast or posted in a recognized student media outlet during the period from 1 October 2015 through 31May 2016.
Jury
Submissions will be reviewed by a jury made up of representatives of Amnesty International and members of the media.
Date of the announcement
The 2016 Amnesty International-Canada Youth Media Award will be announced in September 2016.
Print submissions
Please submit the best available copy of the entry in the way it was originally published (maximum 3 submissions per contestant) in PDF format and submit using the following link:
In uploading files use “Your Name, Media Youth Awards 2016” as the subject line and include the Print Title in the message box.
Television, radio and online submissions
Audio (mp3) & Video (mp4) files can be submitted using the following link:
Online entries should have a maximum of 3 entries. In uploading files use “Your Name, Youth Media Awards 2016” as the subject line and include the Title and/or Name & Date of Broadcast .
A COPY OF THE ENTRY FORM MUST BE INCLUDED WITH EACH SUBMISSION.
Send entries in English for
Television, radio and online with the submission to:
THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS TUESDAY 31 MAY, 2016
1992 Yonge Street | 3rd Floor | Toronto, Ontario | M4S 1Z7 | CANADA